OVERVIEW

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Here, we get some basic information about the dataset, such as the data types, some rows, etc.

Data structure

'data.frame':   16598 obs. of  11 variables:
 $ Rank        : int  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...
 $ Name        : chr  "Wii Sports" "Super Mario Bros." "Mario Kart Wii" "Wii Sports Resort" ...
 $ Platform    : Factor w/ 31 levels "2600","3DO","3DS",..: 26 12 26 26 6 6 5 26 26 12 ...
 $ Year        : num  2006 1985 2008 2009 1996 ...
 $ Genre       : Factor w/ 12 levels "Action","Adventure",..: 11 5 7 11 8 6 5 4 5 9 ...
 $ Publisher   : Factor w/ 579 levels "10TACLE Studios",..: 369 369 369 369 369 369 369 369 369 369 ...
 $ NA_Sales    : num  41.5 29.1 15.8 15.8 11.3 ...
 $ EU_Sales    : num  29.02 3.58 12.88 11.01 8.89 ...
 $ JP_Sales    : num  3.77 6.81 3.79 3.28 10.22 ...
 $ Other_Sales : num  8.46 0.77 3.31 2.96 1 0.58 2.9 2.85 2.26 0.47 ...
 $ Global_Sales: num  82.7 40.2 35.8 33 31.4 ...

First 5 rows

Rank Name Platform Year Genre Publisher NA_Sales EU_Sales JP_Sales Other_Sales Global_Sales
1 Wii Sports … Wii 2006 Sports Nintendo 41.49 29.02 3.77 8.46 82.74
2 Super Mario Bros. … NES 1985 Platform Nintendo 29.08 3.58 6.81 0.77 40.24
3 Mario Kart Wii … Wii 2008 Racing Nintendo 15.85 12.88 3.79 3.31 35.82
4 Wii Sports Resort … Wii 2009 Sports Nintendo 15.75 11.01 3.28 2.96 33.00
5 Pokemon Red/Pokemon … GB 1996 Role-Playing Nintendo 11.27 8.89 10.22 1.00 31.37

Last 5 rows

Rank Name Platform Year Genre Publisher NA_Sales EU_Sales JP_Sales Other_Sales Global_Sales
16594 16596 Woody Woodpecker … GBA 2002 Platform Kemco 0.01 0.00 0 0 0.01
16595 16597 Men in Black II: … GC 2003 Shooter Infogrames 0.01 0.00 0 0 0.01
16596 16598 SCORE Internation … PS2 2008 Racing Activision 0.00 0.00 0 0 0.01
16597 16599 Know How 2 … DS 2010 Puzzle 7G//AMES 0.00 0.01 0 0 0.01
16598 16600 Spirits & Spells … GBA 2003 Platform Wanadoo 0.01 0.00 0 0 0.01

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Summary

      Rank           Name              Platform         Year     
 Min.   :    1   Length:16598       DS     :2163   Min.   :1980  
 1st Qu.: 4151   Class :character   PS2    :2161   1st Qu.:2003  
 Median : 8300   Mode  :character   PS3    :1329   Median :2007  
 Mean   : 8301                      Wii    :1325   Mean   :2006  
 3rd Qu.:12450                      X360   :1265   3rd Qu.:2010  
 Max.   :16600                      PSP    :1213   Max.   :2020  
                                    (Other):7142   NA's   :271   
          Genre                             Publisher        NA_Sales      
 Action      :3316   Electronic Arts             : 1351   Min.   : 0.0000  
 Sports      :2346   Activision                  :  975   1st Qu.: 0.0000  
 Misc        :1739   Namco Bandai Games          :  932   Median : 0.0800  
 Role-Playing:1488   Ubisoft                     :  921   Mean   : 0.2647  
 Shooter     :1310   Konami Digital Entertainment:  832   3rd Qu.: 0.2400  
 Adventure   :1286   THQ                         :  715   Max.   :41.4900  
 (Other)     :5113   (Other)                     :10872                    
    EU_Sales          JP_Sales         Other_Sales        Global_Sales    
 Min.   : 0.0000   Min.   : 0.00000   Min.   : 0.00000   Min.   : 0.0100  
 1st Qu.: 0.0000   1st Qu.: 0.00000   1st Qu.: 0.00000   1st Qu.: 0.0600  
 Median : 0.0200   Median : 0.00000   Median : 0.01000   Median : 0.1700  
 Mean   : 0.1467   Mean   : 0.07778   Mean   : 0.04806   Mean   : 0.5374  
 3rd Qu.: 0.1100   3rd Qu.: 0.04000   3rd Qu.: 0.04000   3rd Qu.: 0.4700  
 Max.   :29.0200   Max.   :10.22000   Max.   :10.57000   Max.   :82.7400  
                                                                          

EDA

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Sales by year

Sales by publisher

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Sales by Genre

A different approach for Sales by Genre

GOING DEEPER

Let’s see the overall sales by country. Notice that the sales for EU and NA are almost equal regarding the genre. Japan use to sale more RPG games than Action, which is common in other regions

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North America Sales by Genre

Europe Sales by Genre

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Japan Sales by Genre

Other Sales by Genre